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Scottish Social Mobility Index 2024

HEPI

The ESMI provides a framework to evaluate English universities’ support for social mobility, focusing on access for disadvantaged students, continuation, and graduate outcomes. SIMD1 represents the 20% most deprived areas, while SIMD2 represents the next 20% – together encompassing the 40% most disadvantaged areas.

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SOULS: The Academy’s Recipe for Transformation, Retention, and Creating a Better World

Insight Into Diversity

As a tenured full professor of political science, a former director of graduate studies and admissions, dean, and now vice president for diversity, I view the crisis of Black faculty and staff retention in the Academy as a quiet earthquake — slowly moving beneath the ground, embodying the terrors that make academic life untenable.

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Furman University and 14 Others Collectively Awarded $8.625 Million to Improve Inclusion for STEM Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our primary goals are to increase retention of students with historically disadvantaged identities, to cultivate a sense of belonging, and to facilitate student success in STEM.”. “This project will transform the student experience in STEM at Furman,” said Dr. Alison Roark, associate professor of biology and program director.

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UConn Hartford Awarded $1.9 Million Grant to Bolster Asian American Student Success

Insight Into Diversity

The funds will be used to launch the Transformation, Equity, Access, and Sense of Belonging (TEAS) project to improve retention and graduation rates for Asian American students and promote increased advancement to graduate and professional schools. Department of Education to support its growing Asian American student population.

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Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism

HEPI

Even in subjects where equivalent numbers of men and women participate, however, many women are still disadvantaged by everyday sexism. We know that women students and staff remain underrepresented in Higher Education STEM disciplines. Experiences of sexism in the workforce are associated with women leaving STEM.

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Student demographics: Big changes are forcing reinvention on campus

University Business

This, along with a student body that’s growing more and more diverse, should increase pressure on research universities in particular to take an equity-minded toward increasing access, retention and student success. “They’ll be at a disadvantage in terms of what we know helps students succeed and thrive.”

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Demystifying AI: A Guide to AI Literacy in Higher Education Enrollment Management

Liaison International

Key Takeaways: AI literacy is crucial for enrollment teams to understand, evaluate, and responsibly use AI to enhance recruitment, retention, and operations. By cultivating AI literacy, enrollment teams can enhance recruitment strategies, improve student retention, and streamline administrative tasks.